Police in military-dominated Burma on Tuesday arrested a man who staged a rare protest against a controversial Chinese hydroelectric power project, an official said. "A 46-year-old man was arrested this afternoon near the Chinese Cultural Office as he tried to stage a solo protest," said a government official who did not want to be named. The office is part of the Chinese embassy in Rangoon. He was understood to be holding a banner demanding a halt to the Myitsone hydropower dam project in northern Kachin state, electricity from which is destined for neighbouring China. Protests are rare in authoritarian Burma, where pro-democracy rallies in 1988 and 2007 were brutally crushed by the junta. Demonstrators must have permission from the authorities.